Scales

This page presents the scales I have found in the internet. Except the standard chromatic scales, (Major: whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half) (Minor: whole, half, whole, whole, half, whole, whole), they are many other special scales.

Some of them even consists less than 7 notes, such as pentatonic scales.

Basic

• 大什麼小什麼是什麼調

  http://pinkspider.pixnet.net/blog/post/25960660-%E5%A4%A7%E4%BB%80%E9%BA%BC%E5%B0%8F%E4%BB%80%E9%BA%BC%E6%98%AF%E4%BB%80%E9%BA%BC%E8%AA%BF

  This website is in Chinese. It gives a brief review of relationship between major and minor.

• 流行曲樂理教室之： diatonic scale（全音階）

  https://www.facebook.com/hennessyharmony/posts/162762923864160

  This website is in Hong Kong Chinese. It gives a brief review of diatonic scale.

• Sol-Fa Name 唱名表

  http://zeroviolin.blogspot.hk/p/sol-fa-name.html

  It gives a brief review of Sol-Fa Name.

• HALF STEPS, WHOLE STEPS and SCALE FORMULAS

  http://www.bandnotes.info/tidbits/scales/half-whl.htm

  It introduces “Interval Formula”.

• What is the relationship between “do re mi” and note letter names?

  http://music.stackexchange.com/questions/4957/what-is-the-relationship-between-do-re-mi-and-note-letter-names

  It introduces the relationship between sofa name and letter name.

Pentatonic Scale

Video

**Pentatonic Scales Illustrated On The Piano **

I really feel that the sounds played by the black key solely has a Chinese music characteristic.

Text

• 五聲音階(Pentatonic Scale)

  http://guitarcenter.pixnet.net/blog/post/21933517-%E4%BA%94%E8%81%B2%E9%9F%B3%E9%9A%8E%28pentatonic-scale%29

  Brief review of pentatonic scale.

• 初學必學之音階！五聲音階及其應用

  http://pan5410.pixnet.net/blog/post/28980039-%E5%88%9D%E5%AD%B8%E5%BF%85%E5%AD%B8%E4%B9%8B%E9%9F%B3%E9%9A%8E%EF%BC%81%E4%BA%94%E8%81%B2%E9%9F%B3%E9%9A%8E%E5%8F%8A%E5%85%B6%E6%87%89%E7%94%A8

  It said pentatonic scale is used in many different form of music.

• Why does playing random black keys on the piano sound like “asian music”

  http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=521616

  It mentioned the fact that we get a pentatonic scale by playing random b

• 各種音階給人不同的感覺

  http://mizjlfvnnowkr.pixnet.net/blog/post/12892719-%E5%90%84%E7%A8%AE%E9%9F%B3%E9%9A%8E%E7%B5%A6%E4%BA%BA%E4%B8%8D%E5%90%8C%E7%9A%84%E6%84%9F%E8%A6%BA

  It compares the difference between Chinese pentatonic scale and Japanese pentatonic scale.

• Pentatonic scale

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale

  It said for the Eb Minor pentatonic scale and Gb Major pentatonic scale, the melody built on them will be all in black keys.

• 日本传统歌曲中常用的音阶有哪些？

  https://www.zhihu.com/question/19833879

  It focuses on Japanese pentatonic scale.

• 【淺談】中國與日本之傳統音樂調式

  http://home.gamer.com.tw/creationDetail.php?sn=2786997

  It compares the difference between Chinese pentatonic scale and Japanese pentatonic scale.

• 五聲音階及其應用

  http://www.modernmusician.com/mm/depart-lession/Theo-PentaScale/Pentatoinc-Scale.html

  It explains the theory of pentatonic scale.

• 五聲音階 (Pentatonic) 與調式音階 (Mode) 的關係

  http://rickmidi.blogspot.com/2008/09/pentatonic-mode.html

  It explains the theory of pentatonic scale in detail.

Advance

• INTRODUCTION TO THE SCALE SYLLABUS

  http://www.jazzbooks.com/mm5/download/FREE-scale-syllabus.pdf

  This website contains many different scales.

• basicmusictheory

  https://www.basicmusictheory.com/

  This website gives a comphensive review of music theory.

• What is a Scale Formula and How to Use it For Guitar

  http://www.guitarhabits.com/what-is-a-scale-formula-and-how-to-use-it-for-guitar/

  This website lists many scales.

• ミュジオリー音楽理論

  http://music.cyberlab.info/scales/

  It is a Japanese website which lists out many scales.